C on Windows without Visual Studio -- basically impossible?

• genesis-sdl

  1 0 3.2 C

  SDL port of The Cherno's Genesis Game

As for static linking libraries, I solved this by writing a CMake file to build my dependencies from source (including SDL). Works in Visual Studio and in Linux/GCC. Should work in MSYS2 as well though I haven't tested that: https://github.com/weirddan455/genesis-sdl/blob/main/CMakeLists.txt

• w64devkit

  72 2,375 7.6 C

  Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 (and x86) Windows

I do more than half my C programming these days on Windows, and that's in part because I maintain a small, custom distribution that works just the way I want: w64devkit. It includes a BusyBox fork, Mingw-w64 GCC, GDB, Vim, and Ctags. I was never satisfied with MSYS2 or Cygwin, and debugging anything linked against msys-2.0.dll remains a miserable experience even to this day. (It's surprising to me that nobody seems to care.)

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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